ECONOMY LIGHT & POWER CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 104.

256 U.S. 113 (1921)

ECONOMY LIGHT & POWER COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1921.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank H. Scott for appellant.

Mr. Clarence N. Goodwin, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom The Solicitor General was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit brought by the United States against appellant in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, for an injunction to restrain defendant from constructing a dam in the Desplaines River at a point in Grundy County, Illinois, without the consent of Congress or authority of the legislature of the State, and without approval of the location and plans by the Chief of Engineers...

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